The announcement of Chrystia Freeland's summer job in 1986 appears on same
page as the noticement of his retirement .

Her summer job
was to write articles for The Encyclopedia of Ukraine which was started by
her grandfather's wartime boss, the Nazi's leading Ukrainian
collaborationist, Volodymyr Kubijovych.

Here is a
November 1986 article in the CIUS
Newsletter(p.14) announcing Chrystia Freeland's government-funded summer job writing articles for the
Encyclopedia of the Ukraine. She was 18. This encyclopedia
was the brainchild and postwar fixation of the leading Ukrainian-Nazi
collaborator, Volodymyr Kubijovich. Kubijovych was the boss of
Freeland's maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak, throughout the war.

Savaryn, a prominent co-founder of the
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, which manages the encyclopedia
project, "made his SS past an important part of his Ukrainian identity and
probably understood it as a contribution to Canadian multiculturalism."[i]
The federal government agreed. The Governor General gave Savaryn the Order
of Canada in 1987 for having "worked to promote multiculturalism in Canada"
and for being "active in his community as a volunteer."[ii]
Both Savaryn and Michael Chomiak, Freeland's maternal grandfather, were
active with the community of Ukrainian WWII veterans associated with the
Third Reich.

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Captive
Canada:Renditions of the Peaceable Kingdom at War, from
Narratives of WWI and the Red Scare to the Mass Internment of Civilians Or, how we learned to stop worrying, keep calm and carry on loving the myths that define and confine us.

This issue (#68) deals with the mass internment of Ukrainian Canadians, this
community's left-right split and the mainstream racist, xenophobic
anti-communism of progressive "Social Gospellers" (like the CCF's J.S.
Woodsworth) who were so captivated by their false beliefs that they
carried out the genocide of First Nations and turned a blind eye to
government repression during the 20th-century "Red Scare."

Canadians should not be surprised by the
fact that our Liberal
Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, has been hiding a big Nazi skeleton in her
family closet.

Like so many other ultranationalists in the
Ukrainian émigré community whose forbears came to Canada soon after WWII,
Freeland has covered up the truth about a close and revered family member
who collaborated with the Nazi regime. In that way, Freeland's case is not terribly unusual.

What is truly impressive about this
whole story is how the ultranationalist Ukrainian diaspora, the Liberal
government and the mainstream corporate media have managed to keep a lid on
broader issues surrounding Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis in
executing mass murder and genocide, including the Holocaust.

Even now,
after the story has been "covered" by the mainstream mass media, precious
few details have actually been allowed to creep out about Freeland's
grandfather (her dido in Ukrainian). This "coverage" amounts to more
"cover up" because, while it exposes some information, it falls far short of
revealing far more damaging truths. It is what the "intelligence"
community calls a "limited hangout."[i]

Michael Chomiak (1905-1984) held the influential position of editor in chief for the
Nazi's leading Ukrainian-language newspaper, Krakivs'ki visti (Krakow
News). As the flagship Nazi propaganda mouthpiece for Ukrainians all
across Greater Germany and occupied Europe, this daily newspaper played a
key role in riling up widespread support within Ukrainian community for the
military efforts of Canada's wartime enemies.

Under Chomiak's guidance and oversight,
this Nazi-empowered newspaper spouted vile antiSemitic fake news which
helped Ukrainians to justify and rationalise the liquidation of some seven
million Jews. The newspaper also actively promoted vile hatred towards
the most powerful enemy of Nazism, namely, the Soviet Union. In case anyone
has forgotten, that country lost 25 to 30 million citizens as a result of
the Nazi onslaught against their homeland. This incredible death toll
included about 8.7 million members of the Red Army who died fighting the
Nazis. The Soviets eventually repelled the Nazi military and chased them back to Germany. It is no
wonder that the Soviet people called WWII, "The
Great Patriotic War."

Chomiak was officially responsible for
at least one other newspaper, a weekly called
Kholmska zemlia(Cholmer
Land). It, like Krakivs'ki
visti, contained many edited speeches by Nazi leaders including Adolph
Hitler, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Governors Hans Frank and Otto
Wächter, and many others. Baron von Wächter was a lawyer, Nazi politician and
the SS-Gruppenführer (Major General) who oversaw the creation of the 14th Waffen
SS Galician division in 1943. This Ukrainian military formation was funded, armed, controlled and led by the Nazi regime. Its members
were volunteers who swore
a religious oath to fight to the death for their supreme leader, Adolph
Hitler. Recruitment for the Waffen SS Galicia was done by the Nazis,
Ukrainian church leaders and Ukrainian newspapers, including that leading
propaganda organ, with Chomiak at its helm, Krakivs'ki visti.

The many Nazi leaders whose words
and deeds were so favourably promoted in the pages of Krakivs'ki visti
and Kholmska zemlia,
represented the master race of fake news in their day. For his part,
Michael Chomiak was their faithful servant, turning out a daily whirlwind of
Nazi news, and spinning war stories to suit their propaganda needs. As chief editor and office
manager for these newspapers of the officially-sanctioned Ukrainian Publishing House, Michael
Chomiak facilitated the largest mass media outlet by which the Nazi's
psychopathic political phobias against Judaism and communism were spread to
the Ukrainian diaspora across Europe.

As we'll see, Michael Chomiak's direct boss was Volodomyr Kubijovych, the
chief shareholder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian
Publishing House, which oversaw the production, printing and distribution of
newspapers, magazines, books and other propaganda materials under the Nazi
regime. More importantly, Kubijovych was the president of the Ukrainian
Central Committee, the main political body of Ukrainians that was
coordinating their national collaboration with the Nazi's Government which controlled German-occupied Poland. This collaborationist
committee had a close relationship with the Nazi's Abwehr ("Defence"), the German military intelligence
organisation.Pawel
Markiewicz, a Polish doctoral candidate now writing his PhD thesis on
Kubijovych and the Ukrainian Central Committee, explains that:

"The Central Committee building at Grunestrasse ... was in fact a shared
building. The Ukrainians were headquartered there as well as the German
military intelligence or Abwehr."[ii]

When
a German Colonel, Alfred Bisanz, was
arrested near the war's end, he gave insights into the relationship between
Kubijovych's Ukrainian Central Committee and the Nazi authorities which
created, funded and controlled it. Bisantz testified that:

"Kubiyovych's Ukrainian Central Committee [UCC]
was created by the Abwehr in Krakow in 1940. From the first day of its existence, it was directly supervised
by the intelligence body of Abwehrstelle-Krakow. Actually, this function was
discharged by the Second Department of the Abwehrstelle-Krakow, headed by
Major von Deml. As an assistant to the head of the Department, I was charged
with directing UCC activity. Without the Abwehrstelle's permission and my
personal clearance, Kubiyovych had no right to include any person in the
Committee or take any action.... Likewise, financing the UCC was also
carried out through me. Each month throughout 1940, I personally handed
Kubiyovych and UCC Secretary-General Hlibovitsky a sum of 50-60 thousand
zlotys."[iii]

This means Nazi
payments to the UCC in Krakow were between 600,000 and 720,000 zlotys in 1940. (This is
calculated to be the equivalent of between $2.8 and $3.36 million today.) One of the
Committee's expenses was Michael Chomiak's salary. In an official 1946
"Military Questionnaire" (which Chomiak completed in German), he reported
that his annual salary as chief editor for 1940 was 5,000 zlotys.
This starting salary is calculated to be worth the equivalent $23,300 in
2017 Canadian dollars. It was increased to $35,000 the following year
and by 1944, his annual salary was the equivalent of about $44,500.[iv]

Meanwhile,
elsewhere, another UCC was being formed by another antiSemitic,
anticommunist government. Yes, the Canadian government, like the Nazi
government in Germany, formed a Ukrainian organisation with the same
acronym, UCC. The UCC that the Liberal government formed in Canada was
the Ukrainian Canadian Committee. It's name was changed in the 1980s
to the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. (Click
here to learn more about the Canadian UCC, its fascist roots, and its
links to both Michael Chomiak and Chrystia Freeland.)

The Liberal government of Canada facilitated the creation of their UCC for
two basic reasons: (1) to consolidate the right-wing Ukrainian diaspora
community in Canada, and (2) to provide a bulwark to oppose the left-leaning
Ukrainian Canadians whose organisations then dominated the Ukrainian
political landscape in this country. After the war, Canada's UCC
surged with power as it benefited from the massive influx of tens of
thousands of ultranationalist Ukrainians who the Liberal government brought
here. This migration included thousands of Waffen SS Galician
division veterans and other military formations of Ukrainians that fought
against Canada's Soviet allies during WWII.

While Canadians certainly deserve to learn
the truth about their foreign minister's maternal grandfather, they should
also be exposed to information about some broader, and much more important
secrets that have been hidden from them for far too long.

Let's not settle for just pulling Michael
Chomiak out of Minister Freeland's family closet and into the light of
public awareness. We have an opportunity now to throw light on many
other Nazi skeletons that have for far too long been lurking in the shadows
of large Canadian wardrobes. In particular, let's look at the Freeland
family secret in the context of the three large social institutions with
which she is most closely associated:

(1) the ultranationalist Ukrainian
Canadian diaspora, represented by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress,
(2) the Liberal Party of Canada, and
(3) the mainstream
corporate media.

In this much-needed process of "Truth and Reconciliation" our blessed
"Canadian values" will be put to the test. Are we up for the challenge
of trying to understand why prominent Canadian citizens and huge social
institutions have been covering up certain deeply unpleasant historical
truths like genocide, at home and abroad?

[i]
"A 'limited hangout' is spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used
gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is
shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform
the public, they resort to admitting -- sometimes even volunteering --
some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging
facts in the case. The public, however is usually so intrigued by the new
information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further..... But
once again the good folks of middle America will be hoodwinked by the
government and its allies in the establishment news media."

Victor Marchetti was the
former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA. In the
1970s he became a CIA whistleblower and wrote an indictment of the
intelligence community called: The CIA and the Cult of intelligence,
1974. It was coauthored by John D. Marks -- another whistleblower --
who had been an analyst and staff assistant to the State Department's
Intelligence Director.

E.Howard Hunt, a CIA operative (1949-1970) became one of "The Plumbers" a
secret team used by Nixon to carry out covert operations. They got
caught in the Watergate Hotel and that lead to many things including Nixon
having to hand over the White House tapes.

See: Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, Silent Coup: The Removal of a
President, 2015.
https://books.google.fi/books?id=Iq6SCgAAQBAJ

Nixon used the term "modified limited hangout" in a
conversation with fellow conspirators (H.R.Haldeman and John N.Mitchell)
on March 22, 1973. They were discussing how to handle the Watergate
scandal, from which all future scandals got the "-gate" suffix.
(Contragate, Irangate, and now perhaps, Didogate?) Listen to their "colourful" discussion on this
recording now available in the online collection of the Nixon Library
from the subpoenaed "Watergate Trial
Conversations."
https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/trial/transcripts.php

In this quotation Bisantz mentions the Abwehrstelle-Krakow, i.e., the Krakow
station of the Nazi's intelligence agency. There is an interesting 44-page,
declassified "SECRET" document detailing the CIA's use of assets from the
Abwehrstelle-Krakow. The document mentions collaborationist Ukrainians
who moved to Canada after the war.

To calculate the conversion of wartime Polish zlotys to
current Canadian dollars, Pawel
Markiewicz noted the following in a personal communication on March 2, 2017:

"This excerpt may help from Frank
Golczewski's piece entitled: "Shades of Grey: Reflections on
Jewish-Ukrainian and German-Ukrainian Relations in Galicia‚" The Shoah in
Ukraine. History, Testimony, Memorialization (Ray Brandon and Wendy
Lower, eds). He wrote:
'The Greek Catholic Church was granted considerably leeway and provided
subsidies, while the Roman Catholic Church suffered extensive persecution
"The Greek Catholic Church received 535,383 zloty per month in 1942.
Using official affixed exchange rates (Reich Mark 2.5/USD $1,
1941), this worked out to about $107,000 at the time, which today
would be worth around $1.48 million (2006 USD). The sum was bound to be
somewhat less, as this figure fails to take into account purchasing power
and the more realistic exchange rates that most likely existed on the black
market.'"

Stanko Vuleta and I (R.S.) put together the following
calculations using the inflation/conversion sources noted below

Year

Zlota

Reich-
mark

$US
(1941)*

$US
(2017)

$CAD
(2017)

1940

5000

2500

1000

17,400.21

23,305.60

1941

7900

3950

1580

26,183.18

35,070.18

1942

9900

4950

1980

29,591.04

39,634.73

1943

12000

6000

2400

33,794.64

45,251.98

1944

12000

6000

2400

33,218.59

44,480.63

1945**

1800

720

9,744.12

13,047.90

Total

25200

10080

149,931.78

200,791.02

* This does not take into account RM devaluation
during the period of 1941 to 1945 or the increase in value between 1940 to
1941.

** Re: Chomiak's salary in 1945: He only received a three months
salary (January-March) in 1945. Chomiak and his family moved to
Vienna in German-occupied Austria when the Soviet Army drove the Nazis out
of Poland in October 1944. Then, for five and a half months, working from Vienna, Chomiak continued as
the editor in chief of Krakivs'ki visti
(which increased circulation to 22,400 copies per day). However,
Chomiak's work was finally forced to end when the Soviet Army entered
Austria on March 29, 1945. The last issue of Krakivs'ki visti was published on
that very day. The Soviet operation which
ousted the Nazi military from Vienna began on April 2, 1945. No longer
protected by the Nazi regime in Austria, Chomiak and his family fled once
again from the Soviet Army, this time to Germany. (This was the
third time Chomiak had fled from the Soviets.)